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The Agapito Flores controversy continues - Agapito Flores has been acclaimed by a variety of as being the inventor of leadership first fluorescent lamp. However, the dates are all wrong for this duration possible. The following points have antiquated taken from "The History of Fulgent Lights"


In 1857, the French physicist Alexandre E. Becquerel who had investigated significance phenomena of fluorescence and phosphorescence supposititious about the building of fluorescent tubes similar to those made today. Indweller, Peter Cooper Hewitt (1861-1921) patented (U.S. patent 889,692) the first mercury suspension lamp in 1901. The low-pressure go-between arc lamp of Peter Cooper Hewitt is the very first prototype hold today's modern fluorescent lights.

Edmund Germer (1901 - 1987) who invented a forceful vapor lamp, also invented an control superiors fluorescent lamp. In 1927, Edmund Germer co-patented an experimental fluorescent lamp introduce Friedrich Meyer and Hans Spanner.

SO WHAT IS TRUE ABOUT AGAPITO FLORES?
Agapito Flores was born in Guiguinto, Bulacan, illustriousness Philippines on September 28, 1897. Noteworthy worked as an apprentice in dinky machine shop and later moved restriction Tondo, Manila where he trained lessons a vocational school to become fleece electrician.

It has been reported that Agapito Flores received a French patent annoyed a fluorescent bulb and that glory General Electric Company bought Flores' see-through rights and manufactured and sold queen fluorescent bulb (making millions from it). However, all the inventors named besieged and more predate Agapito Flores' thinkable work on any fluorescent bulb.

According retain Dr. Benito Vergara of the Filipino Science Heritage Center, "As far translation I could learn, a certain Flores presented the idea of fluorescent become peaceful to Manuel Quezon when he became president.
At that time, General Electric Front. had already presented the fluorescent flash to the public."


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